TechGamingShareable Xbox Game Pass family plan leaks to crash PS Plus partyIt’s funny how the news dropped just as Sony’s subscription service was hitting the headlinesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechGamingShareable Xbox Game Pass family plan leaks to crash PS Plus partyIt’s funny how the news dropped just as Sony’s subscription service was hitting the headlinesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
It’s funny how the news dropped just as Sony’s subscription service was hitting the headlines
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(Image credit: Microsoft)
(Image credit: Microsoft)
There are two kinds of leak when it comes to tech news. There are leaks of information the company doesn’t want you to know, and there are deliberate leaks that act as a form of marketing. The news thatMicrosoftis working on a family plan forGame Passon the PC andXboxfeels very much like the latter.
Don’t get me wrong. As a parent and gamer I think a family plan is a great idea: I already have one forAppleArcade, and for various TV and music streaming services too. But the timing’s awfully convenient whenSony’s rival, the revampedPS Plus, has just been unveiled.
It’s a family affair
According toWindows Central, the Game Pass family plan would enable you to share your account with the rest of your household and it’s set to launch some time later this year. Although it’d cost more than a standard Game Pass subscription, it’d still be considerably less expensive than having multiple accounts.
The service would use the same Family Account system Microsoft already operates for Office 365 users. Provided you’re all in the same country you’d be able to play together on a single subscription. That’s really interesting to me because as someone who co-parents there are times when my kids aren’t here but might want to beat me at or do co-op with me in various online games; being able to do that with Game Pass titles would be great.
There are still plenty of details we don’t know. The price, for one, and whether this would be a plan covering PC as well as console or if you’d need a different family plan for that. But the leak isn’t really there to give us any hard information; it’s to make people who might be thinking of a PS Plus subscription instead of Game Pass think twice, and to take a little of the wind out of Sony’s sails.
And on that basis: achievement unlocked.
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